“Love the sinner, but hate the sin.”
Love the sinner, but hate the sin.
attributed to Augustine of Hippo
Attributed to Augustine everywhere and written by him nowhere in this form. The nearest thing he wrote is a rule for the discipline of a convent - "with due love for the persons and hatred of the sin" - which is about how a community corrects its own members, not a maxim about how to regard the world.
How this is known
No volume this project holds carries these words.
This project holds NPNF series 1 vol. 1, which prints Letter CCXI, the letter the attribution is usually traced to, and these words are not in it; the build checks that in both directions. What the letter actually says is recorded here as augustine-love-the-persons-hate-the-sin.
Also by
- Augustine of Hippo every saying recorded of this person, and their page